The Art of Film
Visitor in the Dark (2017) short film
Visitor in the Dark has been released on Amazon prime! Aliens attack a small town and deavistate the lives of its inhabitants. With one man charged with the murder of a family. Based on the real crime story of Bob Hopskin, who swears to this day, and from his...
STAR WARS Before CGI
I know that it is super geeky of me, but i just cant help but LOVE old school visual effects. Long before the greenscreen lined walls of the Avengers, long before the tennis balls on sticks or actors in skin tight Lycra motion capture suits. There existed an art form called stop motion.
The Secret History of Texas Film
In 1902 the Star Film company released “A Trip to the Moon” directed by George Méliès. The film was an international success on its release, and was pirated by other studios, especially in the United States.
Its unusual length, lavish production values, innovative special effects, and emphasis on storytelling, were influential to other film-makers and the development of narrative film as a whole.
Green screen 101 – a brief history of green screen
In the beginning…and I mean the very beginning of film was George Melies and “un homme de tetes 1898”. In this film, Melies employes a trick, the precursor to the modern green screen effect, known as a holdout matte for the first time in any motion picture. It was accomplished by putting a piece of glass in front of the camera and painting sections black so that they are not exposed and then covering the remaining areas
